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Apple Creator Studio
Apple Creator Studio is a collection of powerful creative apps for making music, video editing, creative imaging, and visual productivity.
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 151 posts.
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Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device
We're building a frontier lab for on-device AI. Small, specialized models for audio, vision, and text, faster than the cloud and free.
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Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)
How I built a queryable video archive locally on a 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max using Gemma 4 31B in LM Studio. The build journey, the absurdity of 50GB of swap, and four bugs that taught real lessons.
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Thunderbird for iOS
The team has been working hard behind the scenes laying a strong foundation for the Thunderbird iOS app, building natively from scratch.
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Cloudflare Email Service
Agents are becoming multi-channel. That means making them available wherever your users already are — including the inbox. Today, Cloudflare Email Service enters public beta with the infrastructure layer to make that easy: send, receive, and process email natively from your agents.
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Git for the US Code
Lawyers should be able to read a statute as it stood on any date and see which law wrote each phrase. A history of nine titles of the US Code, built by replaying every amendment, as the example.
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The Future of Obsidian Plugins
Introducing the new Obsidian Community site and developer dashboard.
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Seedance 2.5
One-take Creation, Flexible Referencing: Introducing Seedance 2.5
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Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM
Rust LSP that doesn't eat memory for breakfast
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Mac at any scale
What it takes to run Macs in a datacenter: custom MacBook racks, virtualizing macOS with Apple's Virtualization framework, and building and distributing huge VM images across the fleet.
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DoNotNotify is now Open Source
DoNotNotify is now open source. View the source code, contribute, and help improve the Android notification manager.
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More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle
Community updates make Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle more useful, with Tailscale SSH, proxy modes for KOReader, and full TUN mode on some devices. Plus: plugins for Kobo and Pocket Reader.
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Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026
Announcement for the sunsetting of Gemini CLI in favor of Antigravity CLI, a more robust, agent-first platform designed to handle the multi-agent complexities of 2026.
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Surprise, pay $1000
What's the right behaviour when "try for free" ends?
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Kitty 0.50
kitty is a feature-rich, cross-platform, fast, GPU based terminal. To update kitty, follow the instructions. Recent major new features: Docked windows [0.50]: kitty windows can now be docked to an ...
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Warp is now open-source
Warp is now open-source, and the community can participate in building it using an agent-first workflow managed by Oz, our cloud agent orchestration platform.
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Git at any scale
Hosting Git repositories at scale is a nightmare. When Linus Torvalds designed the first version of the information manager from hell (that's actually the tagline for Git, look it up ), he had a very specific use case in mind: his own. He wanted to replace BitKeeper, the distributed version control system that was…
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Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app
Introducing Ensu, our first step toward a private, personal LLM app that runs on your device and grows with you over time.
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WebMCP is available for early preview
WebMCP aims to provide a standard way for exposing structured tools, ensuring AI agents can perform actions on your site with increased speed, reliability, and precision.
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Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
Hello Windows Insiders, today we are beginning to roll out updates for Notepad and Paint apps to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels on Windows 11. Notepad (version 11.2512.10.0) In this update, we’re introduci
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Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59
The next stable version of Ruff is out now.
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ChatGPT Work
ChatGPT Work is an agent that can take action across your apps and files, stay with a project for hours if needed, and turn a goal into finished work.
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RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland
Try the RustDesk Wayland preview for x86_64 Debian/Ubuntu-based systems: unattended access across multiple monitors and at the login screen after reboot.
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FreeCAD v1.1
After an enormous amount of work and dedication from FreeCAD contributors we are delighted to announce that FreeCAD Version 1.1 is now released and available for download. There are significant amo…
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NetNewsWire Turns 23
NetNewsWire 1.0 for Mac shipped 23 years ago today! 🎸🎩🕶️ Here’s where things are on this particular February 11: we just shipped 7.0 for Mac and iOS, and now we’re working on NetNewsWire 7.0.1. After a big release, no matter how careful we are, there are often some regressions to fix and tweaks to make right away, so…
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Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare
We’re introducing cf, a new unified CLI designed for consistency across the Cloudflare platform, alongside Local Explorer for debugging local data. These tools simplify how developers and AI agents interact with our nearly 3,000 API operations.
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Top downloaded skill in ClawHub contains malware
The same capabilities that make OpenClaw a groundbreaking tool also make it an urgent security risk. This blog contains confirmed examples of agent skills being used as malware vectors, and advice on how to protect yourself if you're experimenting with them.
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MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video
An open-weights omni-modal video model with real stereo sound and 2K output — this powerful model is greatly optimized in ComfyUI and can run locally on a 3060.
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LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
The AI agent made for open models, built to get things done.